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With the G&L 2nd Anniversary on the horizon, I’d like to announce that, along with the anniversary writing contest, my blog will be sustaining an overhaul. I still haven’t decided whether or not I will change the layout, but there will definitely be a new post schedule! And my plan for the 22nd? GogglesandLace.Wordpress.com will (hopefully) just be GogglesandLace.com! Excitement!

I’m still calling for submissions, everyone, so don’t forget to send me a short story for the promo contest! Read more about it!

Also, if you feel up to it, I’ll be Livestreaming progress on the new series due out sometime in April tonight. 8pm EST at www.livestream.com/kitwrites, keep me company! Ask questions! Better yet, suggest a title! Haha. Looking forward to chatting with all of you!

As you know, G&L has been up and down for the last several months. I’ve been a bad blog-mommy. But, as I mentioned before, G&L’s 2nd anniversary is coming up in April, and I want you all to be a part of it!

I have some surprises in store for you, and maybe even for me, as I work my way up to April 22nd. This particular “surprise” though, isn’t going to be much of a surprise, as it requires a bit of forethought. Ready? I know you’re ready.

G&L would not have come this far without all of you. I’m not known for my ability to keep on one thing for any length of time, and if it wasn’t for my readers, G&L would have been one of the many things I would have given up for no apparent reason. So, for all of you and everyone who promoted the posts here at G&L over the last two years, I want to extend the invitation to enter a small short story contest.

Now, I don’t have the means to pay anyone, keep in mind. You’d retain all the rights to your work. This would simply be a means of promoting your writing/blogs/websites through a small short story collection. (For those of you who have read my collection Something Peculiar, it would be exactly like that.)

Contest Details:

Of the entries, 7 will be chosen to be included in the collection. Submission deadline is April 8, 2012.

All submitters that are not chosen will have their names and websites listed on the final page of the ebook and receive a copy of the ebook to use in any promotions they like. (The object of this ebook is to get our fiction out there, remember.)

No corrections or alterations can be made to any entry once its submitted.

The ebook will be sent out on April 22, 2012.

Contest Rules:

There is no set theme. The genre must fall in the categories of fantasy, science fiction, or spec fic. YA or adult fiction are both acceptable. (Not “adult” fiction, by the way. Erotica will be discarded. I have some young readers, and I’d like any submissions to be a strong PG-13 at the worst.)

Entries must not exceed 1200 words.

If published previously, authors must currently hold the publishing rights to that particular piece of fiction. I’d rather not get into a copyright battle. Though, I’d prefer if the entries were not published previously.

Header — right justified, contains the following information:Last name/ TITLE/ page#A header does not belong on the title page. Start headers on page two of the actual manuscript. First labeled page number should be 2.

Cover page

Do not use a cover page with short work, either fiction or non-fiction

First page

Contact information — Name and address, phone number and e-mail address in the top left corner of the page, single spaced, left-justified

Word count — top line, right justified (you’ll have to do this with a table if you’re working with a word processor), either exact count, or rounded to the nearest ten

Title — drop down four double-spaced lines, centered

by — centered and one double-spaced line beneath the title

Name or pen name — centered and one double-spaced line beneath the word by

Body of the story or article — drop down two lines and begin.

Scene or section breaks — drop down two double-spaced lines, insert and center the # character, drop down two more double-spaced lines, and begin your new scene.

Second and subsequent pages

Header — should be in the upper right-hand corner of the page, and page number should be 2.

All submissions must be sent to gogglesandlace-at-gmail-dot-com with “Anniversary Submission” in the subject field.

Judging will begin on April 8, 2012.

Any questions, comments or concerns can be sent to gogglesandlace-at-gmail-dot-com. Please include “Anniversary Contest Question” in the subject field. If I missed anything above, please feel free to let me know. I’ll be happy to make the correction. =]

* “Format” section borrowed from Holly Lisle. If you don’t know of her work, check her out. She’s amazing.

A friend of mine from the Write Write and Write TinyChat room (where I spend most of my noveling Novembers, because my lovely acquaintances there explode with sprints and wars <3) took a post from my series, Writing Life, and wrote a short story from it! =O I do so love being useful.

Really, it’s fantastic. She wrote the piece in about two hours, with a quick editing run-through. For something so quickly put together, I’m surprised how well it reads. The main character’s voice comes across as very measured and nostalgic, almost conversational, as if s/he is just so destroyed emotionally that s/he can’t help but be detached from his/her own life.

Beautifully emotive if a bit lengthy in some of the narrative, The Staircase is very effective in pulling empathy straight from your guts. The pain and utter sorrow that this person’s loss instills is very easily felt through the bulk of the story.

Fans of true love and subtly-presented tragedies, this one is for you.